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Saturday, November 19. 2005

Posted by Ilia Alshanetsky in Stuff

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My new AIM "Buddies"

Thanks to GAIM I have the ability to use multiple IM clients, which now a days is pretty much a necessesity, given that no two people use the same IM system. A few days ago I got a message from the AIM component about the forceable addition of two new buddies to my list, "MoviePhone" and "ShoppingBuddy" that got added to a "AIM Bots" sub-group.

It looks like AOL Time Warner thought of a new way to monitize their network. So far these "buddies" don't actually do a thing, and ignore any of the IMs I send them. I suspect in the future (Xmas time) they'll inform me of all sorts of "interesting" things... Fortunately while I had no ability to decline their addition GAIM appears to allow me to put them on ignore or removed them from my buddy list all together.

Gotta wonder what's next...
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Things That ... Make You Go Hmm on : AIM adds two bots without permission

Recently AOL decided to add two bots to AIM — Moviefone and ShoppingBuddy — irritating some users. AOL’s attitude seems to be that they can easily be deleted, but some netizens viewed this as intrusion. EveryTomorrow describes a h...

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Emil Tamas on :

I hope this will not start a trend and every major IM network will follow it adding stupid automated robots.
What's next: well, considering that most modern IM's are VoIP enabled, perhaps talking bots are fitting the best in this possible nightmare (or I'm too frustrated by this right now)

Mark Glines on :

If anything, it'll start a trend of better ignoring/filtering abilities in 3rd party IM clients. :-)

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